If Wells and Wong are a Holmes/Watson pastiche, then All The Wrong Questions is a playful and affectionate homage to a different side of that genre - the detective story. Written like Chandler on downers, with Lemony Snicket himself the tarnished angel on the mean streets of Stain'd By The Sea, serious-minded but far from mean himself, following the clues and asking the questions, right and wrong, dealing with bumbling officialdom and twisted criminals and a femme fatale doing the wrong things for the right reasons. A missing person, a suspicious apothecary, a reclusive war hero, a once-wealthy family and of course the mysterious missing statue all challenge Lemony's dogged, incisive, slightly downbeat determination to make things right. But can he solve the case and prevent his friends getting hurt? And does solving the case mean abandoning his sister to perform a dangerous task on her own? Thrilling, hilarious, hugely readable stuff.